Shopping in the dark: Storms knock out store's power

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The storms knocked out the power to some areas of metro Atlanta Wednesday.

Shoppers were left in the dark at the Kroger on Briarcliff Road after the outage.

Some people abandoned their carts and left the store while others whipped out cell phones to provide some light.

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The store was forced to close early due to the outage.

Several fallen trees in the area are believed to be the cause of the outage.

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